I later learned that Mark Helprin’s A Winter’s Tale is considered one of the best, most important books of all time.

HORSE LITERATURE!

Apparently, the movie left out important details. For instance, the horse is actually a dog, who’s actually Canus Major or Minor or…something.

I have to experience the madness for myself.

Think of your all-time favourite books. When did you read these and why did you pick them up in the first place?

YIKES. I hate questions like these. It’s SO MUCH PRESSURE.

I’ll give a brief rundown of my (current) top 5:

Maggie Stiefvater’s The Scorpio RacesI bought this book the month it came out at an independent bookstore in Ellensburg my first year of college. I first noticed the horse on the cover (old habits die hard.)
The shop owner saw me holding it and said, “THAT BOOK IS SO PERFECT! I HAVEN’T FINISHED IT YET!”
I read the book in my dorm room as the air turned cold.

Lauren Graham’s Someday, Someday, MaybeI saw this book at Barnes and Noble on a birthday trip to Olympia. I was intrigued by both the plot and the cover, but was skeptical of the celebrity author.
To extend my birthday celebration (and spend some birthday cash), I ordered a bunch of books, including this one, off of Amazon.
Listen – it was only $8 and it popped up in my recommendations. Sometimes that’s all it takes.

Lucy Knisleys’ Something New
I used to spend my afternoons salivating over books at Kinokuniya.
I noticed this book during a period where all of my friends were either married or in new relationships. It helps that I’m already obsessed with weddings and graphic novels…and here was a graphic novel about WEDDINGS.
The blurb described Knisley going from single to engaged in one day…and I had to know how that had happened.
I turned to a random page to find out. Instead of finding out, I read Knisley’s story of stealing cat figurines from a craft store to use as wedding cake toppers.

Katie Heaney’s Would You Rather?I didn’t realize I’d been waiting for a follow up to Never Have I Ever until I saw this sequel at Powell’s.
Originally, I grabbed the book from the featured Memoirs because of the subtitle (“A Memoir of Growing up and Coming out.”)
Wait, this is a Katie Heaney book!?
I try to limit the number of new books I buy at Powell’s because of the cost.
I threw this one in my basket without a second thought.

Elizabeth Gilbert’s CommittedI go through times where I obsess about relationships and/or marriage. In the fall of 2016, I checked out ALMOST EVERY BOOK from the Seattle Library’s marriage and relationship section. This book was one of them.
I wouldn’t have picked this book up if I hadn’t read and loved Gilbert’s Big Magic.
Gilbert had gotten me through a period of writer’s block. I could trust her to walk me through marriage.

I found this tag at the excellent blog Reading Every Night. Go read that post and, if you’re interested, tag yourself in this one. I give you permish.

In the interest of a paycheck, I should probably go to work or something.

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Seattle-based writer currently dabbling in socialism and progressive Christianity.
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